You know you work at a sporting goods store when...

Happy Turkey day.  I just told my parents this story, and I told Jake last night, so it's not exactly new to those that read this blog... but oh well.

I worked at Dick's last night until o'butt30 in the morning.  More specifically, 2:30am.  I'm a bit tired now, but we had to get the store ready for black Friday.

Anyway, part of getting ready for black Friday includes lots of balloons.  Tying balloons to fixtures inevitably leads to balloons that get loose and fly up into the rafters.  You know you work at a sporting goods store when your manager gets a BB gun out to shoot down the runaway balloons.  Scared the crap out of me the first time he shot at one because he didn't announce over the radio that he was going to be shooting in the store.  Oh well.

I work from 4:30am-5pm on Friday.  That's going to be fun.  The girl who took my place as lead when I left got promoted to another store as a sales manager, so this week they are relying upon me a lot more.  That basically means that I am working full-time at Dick's.  It is kind of nice to have another job where I can fill in the days when we don't have school though (since I am hourly at school I don't get paid on days we have off).  As much as it sucks to be consistently working around 50 hours a week, I'm very thankful that I have these job opportunities.

So many things for which to be thankful!